No. The DVSA runs the car theory test in English and Welsh, and that is the whole list.
It was not always that way. Until 2014 you could sit the test with a voiceover in one of nineteen languages, or bring an approved interpreter. Both options were withdrawn. The reasoning given at the time was road safety and fraud: drivers need to read English road signs, and interpreters had been caught prompting candidates.
Whatever you make of that, the practical position today is simple. You will sit the test in English. Nobody will translate it for you in the room.
What the test actually is
Two parts, both taken in one sitting.
The multiple-choice section gives you 50 questions and 57 minutes. You need 43 right. The questions are drawn from a published bank, so the subject matter holds no surprises — the surprise is usually the wording.
Then hazard perception: 14 video clips, 15 scoreable hazards, scored out of 75. You need 44. You click when you see a developing hazard, and clicking too early or too late both cost you.
Fail either part and you fail the whole test. Both have to be passed on the same day.
The numbers move occasionally. Check them on gov.uk before you book.
The help that does still exist
The withdrawal of translation did not remove every accommodation.
If you have dyslexia or another reading difficulty, you can ask for extra time on the multiple-choice section and an English-language voiceover through your headphones. You apply for this when you book, and you will usually need supporting evidence. Deaf candidates can request a British Sign Language interpreter for the test, which is worth knowing because it is often assumed to have gone the same way as the spoken-language interpreters. It did not.
None of that helps with Punjabi. But it is worth knowing what you can ask for rather than assuming the answer is always no.
Where people actually lose marks
The failure rate is roughly half, and among candidates sitting in a second language the pattern is fairly consistent.
It is rarely the driving knowledge. Somebody who has been driving in India or Pakistan for fifteen years knows what a roundabout is. What catches them is vocabulary that has no obvious equivalent and never comes up in conversation. Tailgating. Coasting. Nearside and offside. Pelican, puffin and toucan crossings, which sound like a joke until you meet them in a question. Hard shoulder. Camber. The Highway Code is written in a register that is technical, slightly old-fashioned, and unlike ordinary spoken English.
Then there is the shape of the questions. "Which two of the following..." and "You should not...", negatives and multi-select. A candidate who understands the road perfectly can still misread what is being asked of them under time pressure.
Hazard perception has its own problem, and it is not language at all. It is that clicking on a hazard is an unfamiliar physical task. People who have never played a video game click too late, then overcorrect and click constantly, which the system reads as cheating and scores zero for that clip.
How to revise for a test in your second language
The instinct is to translate everything into Punjabi and learn it there. That fails on the day, because on the day the question is in English and you are translating under a clock.
What works better is learning both at once, side by side. Read the English wording, understand it in Punjabi, then go back to the English. The goal is not to become fluent in traffic English. It is to stop being ambushed by six or seven words that decide four or five questions.
A few things worth doing regardless of language:
Sit full mock tests, timed, rather than answering questions in tens. The clock is part of the exam.
Practise hazard perception on video before you go anywhere near a test centre, and learn the rhythm: one click when you first think something might develop, one more when it does. Not a burst.
Learn the vocabulary as vocabulary. Twenty or thirty terms, written down, revisited. That is a smaller job than it sounds and it is where the marks are.
Read the questions you got right as well as the ones you got wrong. A lucky guess is a gap you have not found yet.
Where the app comes in
I built Pakka Pass because my own family kept hitting the same wall: fluent enough to hold a conversation, not fluent enough to be certain what "coasting" means at question 34 with eleven minutes left.
It shows each question three ways at once — Gurmukhi, Romanised Punjabi for people who speak the language but do not read the script, and the English wording you will actually face. Not as a translation to learn instead of the English, but so the English stops being opaque. There is hazard perception practice and timed mocks, and it works offline with no account, because a revision app has no business knowing who you are.
It is a one-off purchase. There is no subscription and no advertising.
If Punjabi is not your language, most of this article still applies. Urdu, Bengali, Polish and Romanian speakers hit the same wall in the same place, and the same revision approach works: learn the English wording, understand it in your own language, and sit enough timed mocks that the clock stops mattering.